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äpärä

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See also: apara, apára, apará, and apăra

Finnish

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Etymology

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Probably fronted from apara (dregs, mash).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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äpärä

  1. (derogatory) bastard (illegitimate child)
  2. (vulgar) bastard, son of a bitch (term of abuse)
  3. (dated, chiefly Lapland and Ostrobothnia) the soul of an unbaptized dead child; myling
  4. (printing, informal) either a widow or an orphan (a single line of a paragraph on a separate page from the rest of the paragraph)
  5. (dialectal) rowen (second crop of hay)

Declension

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Possessive forms of äpärä (Kotus type 11/omena, no gradation)

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